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# Awesome Yii Framework
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A curated list of awesome Yii Framework extensions, tutorials and other nice things.
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Inspired by [awesome-php](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php) and other [awesome lists](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome).
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## Join discussion and contribute !
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[](https://gitter.im/iJackUA/awesome-yii?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
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## ToC
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* [Yii 2.*](#yii-2)
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* [Yii 1.*](#yii-1)
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---
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## Official Resources
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* [Official site](http://www.yiiframework.com/)
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* [Official community](http://www.yiiframework.com/community/)
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## Yii News
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* [YiiFeed.com](http://yiifeed.com/) - community selected stream of news about Yii framework.
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---
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# Yii 2.*
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## Tutorials
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* The definive guide to Yii2: [HTML](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-index.html), [PDF (en)](http://stuff.cebe.cc/yii2-guide.en.pdf), [PDF (ru)](http://stuff.cebe.cc/yii2-guide.ru.pdf) (work in progress).
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* [Try Yii2](https://github.com/iJackUA/try-yii2) - Vagrant VM + Ansible provisioning = Complete readymade virtual server Yii2 playground.
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## Project structure examples
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* Official [basic](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/tree/master/apps/basic#yii-2-basic-application-template) and [advanced](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-tutorial-advanced-app.html) structures. [Code](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/tree/master/apps).
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* [Minimal Application Template](https://github.com/samdark/yii2-minimal) by samdark.
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* [Practical Application Template](https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-app-practical) by kartik-v (and its variations ["A"](https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-app-practical-a) and ["B"](https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-app-practical-b)).
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* [Demo blog on AngularJS with server-side Yii2 Rest API](https://github.com/githubjeka/angular-yii2) by githubjeka.
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## Extensions
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### Widgets / GUI
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* [kartik-v/yii2-widgets](https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-widgets) - Collection of useful widgets.
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* [Krajee Yii Extensions](http://demos.krajee.com/) - a collection of extensions & modules.
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* [Lepture Markdown editor](https://github.com/iJackUA/yii2-lepture-markdown-editor-widget) - a markdown editor you really want.
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### Social
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* [kartik-v/yii2-social](https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-social) - a module for embedding social plugins and widgets.
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* [Kudos](https://github.com/iJackUA/yii2-kudos-widget) - widget for Svbtle style Kudos.
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### Geo / Maps
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* [2amigos/yii2-leaflet-library](https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-leaflet-library) - extension library to display interactive maps with Leaflet.
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* [amstr1k/yii2-geography](https://github.com/amstr1k/yii2-geography) - extension to work with cities and countries from the database [Geonames](http://www.geonames.org/)
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### Database
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* [yii2-arangodb](https://github.com/DevGroup-ru/yii2-arangodb) - ArangoDB integration for the Yii2 : Connection, Query, ActiveRecord, Migrations.
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* [2amigos/yii2-taggable-behavior](https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-taggable-behavior) - behavior functions for tagging.
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* [2amigos/yii2-translateable-behavior](https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-translateable-behavior) - handles ActiveRecord's attribute translations.
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### File System
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* [2amigos/yii2-file-upload-widget](https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-file-upload-widget) - handles a BlueImp jQuery File Upload plugin.
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### Other
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* [2amigos/yii2-qrcode-helper](https://github.com/2amigos/yii2-qrcode-helper) - helper allows you to render QrCode.
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* [monitorbacklinks/yii2-wordpress](https://github.com/monitorbacklinks/yii2-wordpress) - a component for integration with Wordpress CMS via XML-RPC API.
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## CMS (Yii2 based)
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* [LUYA](https://luya.io) - The Yii 2 CMS to build beautiful and easy editable websites pretty fast!
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* [dotPlant2](http://dotplant.ru/) - e-commerce CMS.
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* [EASYII CMS](http://easyiicms.com/) - control panel and tools.
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## Tools and integrations
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* Not known.
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## Books
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* ["How To Create Single Page Application in minutes! with AngularJs 1.3 and Yii 2.0"](https://www.gitbook.com/book/hscstudio/angular1-yii2/details) by Hafid Mukhlasin.
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* ["Web Application Development with Yii 2 and PHP"](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1783981881) by Mark Safronov.
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* Larry Ulman has a [plan to update his Yii book](http://www.larryullman.com/2012/09/12/yii-2-and-the-yii-book/) for Yii2 after its release.
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* [Yii2 Cookbook](https://github.com/samdark/yii2-cookbook/blob/master/book/README.md) by samdark (work in progress).
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* [Yii 2 For Beginners](https://leanpub.com/yii2forbeginners) by Bill Keck
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# Yii 1.*
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## Tutorials
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* For sure you should start with [official guides](http://www.yiiframework.com/tutorials/).
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* [Yii 1.1: How to learn Yii?!](http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/268/how-to-learn-yii) - Bring some learning flow recommendation.
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* [A longer series on installing, using, and customizing the Yii framework](http://www.larryullman.com/series/learning-the-yii-framework/) by Larry Ulman.
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* [Under the Hood of Yii’s Component Architecture](http://www.sitepoint.com/yii-under-the-hood-1/) (3 parts) - must read to get deep understanding of what Components are in Yii.
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* [Configuring PhpStorm IDE for Yii](http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/92/configuring-phpstorm-ide-for-yii/).
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* [Configuring NetBeans IDE for Yii](http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/83/netbeans-ide-and-yii-projects/).
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## Project structure examples
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* [Yiinitializr](http://yiinitializr.2amigos.us/) - a project template generator. Has 3 options - basic, intermediate and advanced.
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* [YiiBoilerplate](https://github.com/clevertech/YiiBoilerplate) - structure for enterprise-grade websites. Vagrant, test and static code analysis tool inside.
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* [crisu83/yii-app](https://github.com/crisu83/yii-app) - advanced structure, Vagrant and basic set of extensions inside.
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* [YiiBackboneBoilerplate](https://github.com/clevertech/YiiBackboneBoilerplate) - the flexibility of YiiBoilerplate with a twist for BackboneJS applications.
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## Extensions
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### Widgets / GUI
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* [YiiBooster](http://yiibooster.clevertech.biz/) - a collection of Bootstrap based widgets.
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* [YiiWheels](http://yiiwheels.2amigos.us/) - like a YiiBooster, but with more optimized approach.
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* [YiiStrap](http://www.getyiistrap.com/) - the ultimate Twitter Bootstrap extension for Yii.
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* [YiiFoundation](https://github.com/2amigos/yiifoundation) - extension library for ZURB Foundation Framework.
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### Database
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* [MongoYii](https://github.com/Sammaye/MongoYii) - a Yii MongoDB ORM.
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### Input
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* [Imperavi redactor widget](https://github.com/yiiext/imperavi-redactor-widget) - Imperavi Redactor WYSIWYG widget (OEM-licensed for Yii).
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* [X-editable](https://github.com/vitalets/x-editable-yii) - bundle of widgets and server-side component for creating editable elements in Yii application.
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### Image
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* [crisu83/yii-image](https://github.com/crisu83/yii-image) - image versioning and manipulation.
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### Authentication / RBAC
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* [yii-auth](https://github.com/Crisu83/yii-auth) - web UI for Yii's authorization manager.
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* [yii-eauth](https://github.com/Nodge/yii-eauth) - allows to authenticate users by the OpenID, OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 providers.
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### Scaffolding
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* [giix](https://github.com/rcoelho/giix) - gii extended.
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* [yii-caviar](https://github.com/crisu83/yii-caviar) - next generation code generation for Yii.
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### Template
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* [Twig renderer](https://github.com/yiiext/twig-renderer) - allows to use [Twig](http://twig.sensiolabs.org/) template engine in views.
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* [Smarty renderer](https://github.com/yiiext/smarty-renderer) - allows you to use [Smarty 3](http://www.smarty.net/) templates in views.
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* [Fenom renderer](https://bitbucket.org/RSol/rfenomviewrender) - allows to use [Fenom](https://github.com/fenom-template/fenom) template engine in views.
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* [Quicky renderer](https://github.com/yiiext/quicky-renderer) - allows to use [Quicky](https://github.com/kakserpom/quicky) template engine in views.
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* [Haml renderer](https://github.com/delfit/yii-haml) - allows to use [Haml](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haml) in views.
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### Debug
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* [Yii2 debug panel port](https://github.com/zhuravljov/yii2-debug) - debug panel for Yii 1.1 (ported from Yii 2).
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* [Debug toolbar](http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/yii-debug-toolbar/) - a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.
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* [Db profiler](https://github.com/samdark/yii-db-profiler) - Yii profiler adjusted to deal with MySQL performance optimizations.
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### API
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* [RESTFullYii](https://github.com/evan108108/RESTFullYii) - full HTTP verb support for resources, the ability to offset, limit, sort, filter and manipulate related data.
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### Other
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* [EAV behavior](https://github.com/yiiext/eav-behavior) - implements entity-attribute-value pattern.
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* [Nested Set Behavior](https://github.com/yiiext/nested-set-behavior) - AR models behavior that allows to work with nested sets tree.
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* [Activerecord relation behavior](https://github.com/yiiext/activerecord-relation-behavior) - put together the awesomeness of many yii extensions that aim to improve saving of related records.
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## CMS (Yii based)
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* [HumHub](https://www.humhub.org/) - a flexible open source Social Network Kit.
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* [Phundament](http://phundament.com/) - universal HTML5 Application Boilerplates.
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* [Yupe](http://yupe.ru/en) - simple, lite and easy. Uses Yii, Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery.
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* [CiiMS](https://github.com/charlesportwoodii/CiiMS) - a high performance CMS blogging platform designed to be easy to use.
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* [yiicms](https://github.com/magefad/yiicms) - easy CMS with the basic modules and extensions to start.
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* [Craft](https://craftcms.com/) - very slick commercial CMS with a free plan.
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## Tools and integrations
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* [YiiStorm](http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/?webide&pluginId=7182) - Yii framework integration for PhpStorm.
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* [NetBeans Yii Plugin](http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/47246/php-yii-framework-netbeans-phpcc) - add navigation, code completion and command run support.
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## Books
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* ["Yii Project Blueprints"](http://www.amazon.com/dp/178328773X) by Charles R. Portwood II.
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* ["Yii Application Development Cookbook"](http://yiicookbook.org/) by Alexander Makarov.
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* ["Web Application Development with Yii and PHP"](http://www.packtpub.com/web-development/web-application-development-yii-and-php) by Jeffrey Winesett.
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* ["The Yii Book"](https://larry.pub) by Larry Ulman.
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* ["Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot"](http://www.packtpub.com/web-development/yii-rapid-application-development-hotshot) by Lauren J. O'Meara, James R. Hamilton III.
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* ["Beginning Yii \[Video\]"](http://www.packtpub.com/web-development/beginning-yii-video) by Chris Backhouse.
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# Communities
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* [http://yiinewsletter.com](http://yiinewsletter.com/) - the best Yii tips, tricks, and tools delivered to your inbox.
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* [http://yiiframework.ru](http://yiiframework.ru/) - Russian-speaking community.
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